Young Gun Omar Sanchez will ride for Loft Sails in 2013 and 1014. Omar Shanchez is just 21 and debut on the PWA world tour in 2007, at his home spot of Pozo. In 2012 he posted two 17th place finishes at Pwa Pozo Izquierdo and the Pwa Tenerife events.
Omar Sanchez (E-33) will compete in every PWA wave events and target top 10 overall. We wish him luck, and look forward to seeing him in action more often.
Alex Blackmore at only 9 years old has joined Team QSW. QSW is one of the largest and most successful independent windsurf teams in Europe, with six riders competing in everything from the BSA Slalom Series to the BWA Wave Tour.
After just one season with Point-7, and finishing 6th in the PWA Slalom rankings, Josh Angulo has announced he will be departing from Point-7 and the Black Team. This is Josh’s 4th change in 5 years, having most recently left Gun Sails. In an interview on ContinentSeven Josh said “From my understanding, the team budget they do have is preferred to be spent on a younger team. I believe they have some new “young guns” that they will by announcing soon that have joined the team.” So it sounds like money the major factor.
We are unsure whether we will see Josh return to the PWA tour in 2013, but a good chance we will see him at a few contests, when asked of his plans he stated, “It’s hard to get rid of that “competition bug”.”
Josh is a very busy guy, becoming to father to his 3rd child, a recent move to Boston, flying back and forth from Cape Verder to the US, and running the Angulo production board brand.
You can read the full interview with Josh over at ContentSeven.
Professional Windsurfer Tyson Poor Grabs some days at the Gorge after all the tourists have left. Head over to his blog and check out some sweet pics.
Professional Waterman Kai Lenny has launched his a new website, hawaiianwaterman.com.
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The voting is now open for the AWSI Windsurfer of the year. Head over to Windsport Magazine to watch the videos and vote for your favorite riders. The contenders are Levi Siver, Kai Lenny, Phil Soltysiak, Bernd Roediger, Fiona Wylde, Tyson Poor, Bryan Metcalf Perez, Marcillio Browne, and Camille Juban.
Adam Lewis, one of UK’s most progressive riders and a rising star has just signed to Patrik Diethelm Boards, leaving his current sponsor Quatro International. He will be riding for Diethelm in time for the PWA Canaries events. He joins the current UK Freestyle Champion, Adam Sims in what looks to be a bit of a next generation UK dream team according to Patrik Diethelm and Karin Jaggi.
“We are stoked to welcome what we believe is one of the most talented and promising young wave riders in our PATRIK team. Adam Lewis stands out on the water with radical action but also represents our values perfectly. He is extremely professional, dedicated to perfection and performance and at the same time very easy to talk to. In combination with Adam Sims promoting and selling our boards in the UK as well as competing himself on the PWA freestyle world cup we truly have a dream team joining our family that has without a doubt a bright future ahead for them and us”. Karin & Patrik.
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Some more action from Pozo all filmed from the spy cam Proffitts bedroom!! News includes another doublefest by Marcilo Browne, whingury, new moves and the latest arrivals. Ben promises to bring us a technique section soon!
Jordan Reid is a 19 year old windsurfer from the San Francisco Bay Area . This will be his second year competing on the AWT tour. Head over to the AWT website to read the full interview here.
You can expect to see a new Gollito movie in the Future, Andre Pawkowski started shooting yesterday in El Yaque. It sounds like we are going to get more of a personal view and insigt into the lifestyle of one of the top Freestylers in the World.
Continue reading to find out what Gollito and Andre had to say on The Fanatic facebook page.
Look up windsurfing on wikipedia.com and you’ll find Kevin Pritchard listed under ‘International Stars’ and that’s because Kevin is, without doubt, one of the best all-round sailors in windsurfing having won a countless amount of champion titles since he turned professional at 18. One of the highlights of his career has to be in 2000 when he won his first PWA World Wave championship and at the same time defeated Bjorn Dunkerbeck who was 11 times world champion.
Reading through Kevin’s interview you get a small insight into who he is and also his quirky sense of humour but above all else it’s awesome to see yet another windsurfer express satisfaction in how they’ve lived their life thus far as well as the importance of family and their support.
Boards MPORA will be at the PWA Podersdorf and have just confirmed a one hour LiveChat with Andre Paskowski. Its set for Monday 30th April @ 17.00 GMT, so head over to Boards and check it out!!!
Fiona Wylde is a fifteen year old totally hooked on windsurfing! She lives in Hood River Oregon and Los Barriles Mexico, and loves wave and formula. Check out the full article on the AWT website.
Fish Bowl Diaries latest interview is with Marcilio ‘Brawzinho’ Browne. A good read and some awesome action shots of Brawzhino. Head over to Fish Bowl Diaries for the full story.
Check out AWTs Rider of the week, Casey Hauser. As always click the title to get taken to AWTs article.
